Drive letters get swapped in windows 7?!


  1. freewill
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    Drive letters get swapped in windows 7?!


    OK, i got a strange one fellas. My partition drive letters get swapped in windows 7, although the information on the partition doesn't get affected. I got dual OS, xp and 7.

    XP>7
    C > E, D > C, E > D
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  3. Jonathan_King
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    Windows will call whatever the boot partition is the C drive. If you are running XP, the XP partition will be C, and if you are running 7, the 7 partition will be C.
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  4. 2 Bunny
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    Jonathan_King said:
    Windows will call whatever the boot partition is the C drive. If you are running XP, the XP partition will be C, and if you are running 7, the 7 partition will be C.
    Not true. When I ran the RC of 7, my Win7 Boot partition was "M", like it's supposed to be.

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